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Setting up your email account - Outlook Express (all versions)
Written By: WebMastermind Support 
Date Posted: 1/7/2007

The following describes how to setup your email account in Microsoft's Outlook Express.
At the time of this help article we were using Version 6, older version should be much the same except for a few minor differences.

1. Open Outlook Express from the icon on your desktop or in your Programs via your Start Bar.
2. Now on the top text menu select Tools, Accounts.
3. In the Internet Accounts window you just opened, select the Mail tab.
4. We are setting up a new account so let's select "Add" and "Mail" using the right side button.
5. Your Name
   Enter a friendly name like "John Smith" or "Your Company Name" and then click Next.
   
6. Internet Email Address
   Now enter the email address we provided i.e. johnsmith@mydomain.com
   
7. Email Server Names
   We have three options on this screen:
   My incoming mail server is a (POP3) - select: POP3
   Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server - enter: mail.ihosttech.com
   Outgoing mail (SMTP) server - enter: mail.ihosttech.com
   Now click NEXT...
8. Internet Mail Logon
   
   We have another three options on this screen:
   
   Account name: (enter your email address) i.e. johnsmith@ihosttech.com
   ** Be sure you type your email address exactly as we have provided.
   
   Password: (enter the password you were provided)
   ** Be sure you type your password exactly as we have provided.
   
   Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA): untick this box
   
   Now click NEXT...
   
   
9. Now click "Finish".
10. In your mail window you should now see the email account we just created, we have just a few more settings to make.
11. Double click the account we just created.
12. This will open a window and put you in the General Tab, click the Servers tab beside it.
13. At the very bottom of this screen "tick" the "My server requires authentication" box.
14. Now click the "Settings..." button beside it.
15. This window should have "Use same settings as my incoming server" selected, if not select it and then click "OK".
16. Now we are back at out previous window in the Servers tab, select the Advanced tab at the top.
17. In this screen you should see "Server Port Numbers", and just below that "Outgoing mail (SMTP):" with a white box and the number 25 in it. Change this to: 26, then click "Apply" and "OK".
18. We are back at the Internet Accounts window, click "Close" at the bottom.
19. Now we are done - let's test our settings by clicking the "Send/Recv" button at the top. If we get no errors (Make sure you are online!) then all is well. Try sending an email to a friend to give it a good test.
    
    
    

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